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Document Request: 1846 Will of William Humphrey Risbridger
Document Description: 1846 Will of William Humphrey Risbridger
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William Humphrey Risbridger
The last Will and Testament of me William H Risbridger the younger of Charlwood in the
county of Surrey [ ]ing the disposal of my temporal estate […] it has pleased God to help
me as follows first I hereby appoint and nominate my friend Emery [——] of Charlwood
Executor and my beloved wife Betsy Executrix jointly and in common to this my will. I give
and bequeath to my said friend Emery Wright and to my wife Betsy the full sum two 1
hundred pounds in trust for my [three children] until they respectively attain the age of
twenty-four years as follows one hundred pounds to my son William on attaining the age of
twenty four years to my daughter Betsy Ann and my son John fifty pounds each on their
attaining the age of twenty four years and should any or all of my said children die without
issue or before they attin the age of twenty fours years then and in that case their legacy to
go to the survivor of them share and share alike and my will is that my wife Betsy shall
[forever] and be entitled to the interest arising from the said sum of two hundred pounds to
assist her in supporting my said children till they arrive at their several ages of twenty four
years and I give and bequeath the remainder and residue of my property of whatever
description to my wife Bestsy for her sole use and purpose and do hereby declare this to
be my last Will and Testament as witness my hand and seal this thirty first day of August
one thousand eight hundred and forty-two — Wiiliam H Risbridger - - in the presence of —
Joseph Flint — Mary Risbridger In the Surrogate Court of Canterbury In the [Gords] of 2
William Humphrey Risbridger [deceased?] APPEARED PERSONALLY Joseph Flint of
Charlwood in the County of Surrey […] and made [oath that he is one of the […] witnesses
to the last Will and Testament of William Humphrey Risbridger formerly of Pitsford in the
State of New York in the United States of America but late of Charlwood in the County of
Surrey aforesaid deceased bearing […] date the thirty first day of August in the year one
thousand eight hundred and forty two now hereunto annexed and [he] further made oath
that on the thirty first day of August aforesaid the said Testator only executed this said will
on signing his name at the foot or end thereof in the presence of [this deponent] at the
same time and this deponent and the said Mary Risbridger thereupon attested and
subscribed the said Will in the presence of the said Testator — […] Flint — On the 25th
day of May in the year 1846 the said […] Flint was duly sworn to the […] of this affidavit.
Before me —- Robert J. Phillimore […] —- […] Tho B Hicke […] PROVED at London 4th
June 1846 before the Worshipful Robert Joseph Phillimore Doctor of Laws and Surrogate
by the oath of Emery Wright one of the Executors to whom […] was granted having first
sworn an [oath] to administer power reserved of making the [life ?] to Betsy Jordan (wife of
William Jordan formerly Risbridger Widow) the Court the other Executor when she shall 3
apply for the same.

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